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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

Afeni Shakur

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Himself Punishment Special Time Training
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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Himself Myself Right Shame
I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Children Help Learning Myself Save Time World
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
AFENI SHAKUR

Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing
I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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Addiction Myself Need Obsession Work
I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Responsibility Worst Wrong Yourself
That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Angry Philosophy
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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Agreement Finding Myself Reading
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Money Myself Son
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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Different Father Fight Myself Rebel
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Himself Myself Opportunity Story
I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Mom Myself Remember Slave Work

That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

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